Cinema: Red Herrings and Refusals

THE SHINING Directed by Stanley Kubrick Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick
and Diane Johnson

If one is determined to find a super natural explanation for the strange
goings-on in the old, grand, snowbound hotel in the Rockies, it is just
barely possible to do so. But Stanley Kubrick really does not care.
His adaptation of The Shining, Stephen King's pulpy haunted-house
novel, keeps forcing reasonable  or non-occult  interpretations on
the behavior, variously bonkers and bloody, that his camera records
with its customary elegance. Whether his stylistic mastery and
rigorous intelligence will carry...